Email: Feelings of despair, failure, sadness after job loss. (US)
Hey, dedicate a poem to you – ‘She walks in beauty’! The last thing we want to hear, think about when dealing with profound sadness is that deep learning is found in this place. In the midst of pain, we often feel picked on by life, overwhelmed by enormity of loss. Simply, exhausted to honestly examine real reasons to re-ignite happiness. Disappointed, angry to look for anything resembling a bright side to suffering. It’s not always tears that measure pain, it’s smiles we fake!
Still, somewhere in our hearts, surely know we’ll emerge from depths of darkness into luminescence of greater awareness, freedom, creativity, resolve, graciousness. Remembering this truth, no matter how elusive it seems, helps. When dealing with sadness, only way out is calmly wading through. Sitting with sadness takes huge courage. Believe we can endure sadness with strength. Allows self to align, shift with inner permissions.
A powerful learning that disillusionment offers – ability to let go, surrender in faith, acceptance of mistakes, self-nurturing love, championing change. Best to avoid denial, numbing, negative coping mechanisms. Feel compassion for others who are also in pain. Only in feeling our pain can we understand, allow for someone else’s. A gift of sorts to recognise, learn, evolve as higher versions of selves. Just look up, face the sun.
While our individual experiences carry unique perspectives – dynamics of what we learn are universal. Incredibly insightful wisdom absolutely motivates, inspires, stimulates to soar beyond limitations. Energetically, passionately take positive control of what makes one genuinely happy, purposeful.
A reason why birds chirp in the morning is to alert other birds they made it through the night. Many great leaders rejected as failures, proved otherwise – Steve Jobs, Walt Disney.
When I despair, remember through history – belief, truth, grit, gratitude, compassion have always won!